Susan Teller Gallery Presents 'Sue Fuller: String Theory' 4/2-4/24

Sue Fuller: String Theory, Constructions and Works on Paper, 1944-1984, is on view at the Susan Teller Gallery, April 2 through 24, 2010. The full show may be seen under Exhibitions at WWW.SUSANTELLERGALLERY.COM.

Known for both large scale string and Lucite constructions as well as an innovate body of prints, Sue Fuller (1914-2006) received a BA from Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1936, and a MA from Columbia University Teachers' College, 1939. She worked with modernists Hans Hoffman and Josef Albers, and with the printmaker Stanley William Hayter at the New York Atelier 17, 1943/44. She also studied glass blowing in England in 1951, calligraphy in Japan in 1953, and lace making in 1962.

Recently her work was featured in See Through, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, November 25, 2009, through January 24, 2010, and The Pull of Experiment: Postwar American Printmaking, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, September 25, 2009, through January 3, 2010.

Among the Permanent Collections with work by Fuller are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Storm King Art Center; the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Baltimore Museum of Art; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Huntington Library; the Honolulu Academy of Art; the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; and the Tate Gallery, London.

Show Highlights:
• Three-piece set for the intaglio Cacophony, 1944, with the collage used to make the soft ground and impressions of the first state and the final states. (See below)
• Seven-piece set with the string collage used to make both Concerto and Lancelot & Guinevere, (both 1944), final states and two early proof impressions for both prints.
• Lucite/string constructions, 1962/65.
• Maquette for the giant construction made for the Tobin Library of the McNay Museum of Art, 1984.